LUNAR ECLIPSE

Photograph by Ben Granett.

The image below is from a slide transparency taken by a young Explorit
Astronomy Club member, Ben Granett at the club's meeting Thursday September
26 at West Davis Elementary School.
It is a multiple exposure of the lunar
eclipse that we watched that evening. The slide shows the totally eclipsed
Moon and to its lower right, the planet Saturn, as they climbed through
obscuring layers of dust and smoke in the air. Such pollution is a typical
condition here in autumn. To make this picture, Ben took seven exposures on
one frame of 35 mm Kodachrome film through a camera using a 100 mm lens.

The exposures were made at 5 minute intervals, with each one lasting
approximately 5 seconds. When at last the eclipsed Moon rose above the
polluted layers of air, many at the meeting that night concluded that the
eclipse must have ended earler than predicted!